# So I was a Scorpio all my life and now I'm a Libra (star signs have apparently changed). **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512 "2011-01-13T20:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/21 "2011-01-13T21:56:03Z")
Since I don’t particularly believe in horoscopy, I am just fine being a libra. Of course I would have to get rid of all my scorpio and scorpion based goodies that people have given me over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/22 "2011-01-13T21:56:54Z")
I’m still a Taurus baby, yeah!!! I don’t read any horoscopes, but I’ve always loved the fact that my sign is a big strong bull. Similarly in the Chinese zodiac, I’m an ox. If anybody takes either away from me, I’ll…I’ll…I’ll ram them with my horns! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Doctor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Doctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/23 "2011-01-13T21:58:28Z")
Cancer?!?! Hell NO!! I was born a Leo and remain a Leo! Lions are cool. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/24 "2011-01-13T22:02:47Z")
Well, I was always on the cusp of Cancer and Leo, which struck me as being really weird as they are such different signs. Not that I believe in astrology, but it would explain a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/25 "2011-01-13T22:09:58Z")
Hm. I’m conflicted. I _was_ an Aries (now Pisces). And under the Chinese zodiac, was apparently born in the year, day, and hour of the Ram. Which seemed appropriate. But now, this. tsk. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/26 "2011-01-13T22:28:00Z")
I’m a Gemini. I knew it! This is going to change everything for me. Maybe I’ll change my name to go along with it. I’ve always liked Jason. Yeah, Jason the Gemini. Maybe I’ll hit up the club tonight, see if the ladeez like the new me. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/27 "2011-01-13T22:30:18Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Pisces?_ No frakking way am I a Pisces! It does seem a bit fishy. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/28 "2011-01-13T22:33:04Z")
If you read farther down, it now says > [@](#): > > Update: Well, strike that, you don’t get to switch your sign. At least reader StarJack says so: “The stars are markers that drift, but our main points of reference are not directly the stars. They are the equinoxes (both spring and vernal) and the solstices which altogether make the four cardinal points of the zodiac which in turn determine the signs. The stars help us locate those points which define the SIGNS of the Zodiac which remain constant in relation to the equinox point. The CONSTELLATIONS do move about and we take that into consideration when locating planets.” So I’m still a Taurus, and my SO is still an Aries. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/29 "2011-01-13T22:51:29Z")
I reufse to hang out with the smelly scorpio’s. I’m sticking with my regular hang out The Sagittarius Nightclub. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/30 "2011-01-13T23:13:50Z")
change me from Virgo to Leo? What a bunch of bull. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/31 "2011-01-13T23:27:02Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I am not an Aries! > > What a load of bull. Amen, flipping bloody Aries no way!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/32 "2011-01-13T23:45:47Z")
I’m now a Ophiuchus. Now it all makes sense! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/33 "2011-01-13T23:49:46Z")
We’ve scooped the Post and discussed this here before, most recently [in this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=586242). The Post’s sign chart still has astrological “houses” of the zodiac equal in size and day length, but the actual constellations (and the parts of them overlying the ecliptic) aren’t of equal size at all. The Sun is in Virgo for around 45 days, but only in Scorpio for about 7. [Your Astronomical Sun Sign](http://dionysia.org/astrology/sun-signs.html) (including Ophiuchus) [What’s Your Sign?](http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/zodiac.html) by the good ol’ Bad Astronomer. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/34 "2011-01-13T23:54:05Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > So someone’s gone to the trouble of ‘correcting’ the signs and still not added [Ophiuchus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiuchus_(astrology)). Hehe snake holder. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/35 "2011-01-13T23:57:13Z")
For decades now ( including a few times on this board ) I’ve been using the same tired joke: “I don’t believe in astrology. Capricorns never do.” Now apparently I have to switch that to Sagittarius. Oh, well. I guess archers are cooler than fish-goats anyway. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/36 "2011-01-14T00:00:25Z")
Well look at that, I started out as a Taurus and I remain a Taurus no matter what chart you look at. ::smug:: ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/37 "2011-01-14T00:17:45Z")
well, looks like this “closet aquarian” is a fully out of the closet aquarius. before there was a heavy aquarius sprinkling through out my chart, but my sun sign was in the very begining of pisces. can’t wait to send this info to my family. i wonder if true pisces is still in the school of fish. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/38 "2011-01-14T00:18:03Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > The Sun is in Virgo for around 45 days, but only in Scorpio for about 7. Self-nitpick: Sorry, I meant to say Scorpius here. ⭕D ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/39 "2011-01-14T00:32:26Z")
I changed from Sagitarius to Ophiuchus. No wonder I didn’t meet anyone interesting today. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512/40 "2011-01-14T00:46:39Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > Good Grief. All four of us change on this chart! > > Hubby, from Virgo to Leo > Myself and son, from Gemini to Taurus > Daughter, from Cancer to Gemini I think this makes you a MUCH nicer family…😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-a-scorpio-all-my-life-and-now-im-a-libra-star-signs-have-apparently-changed/567512.md?page=3)